Search

This article informs that a century ago the New York Times put up a new building in midtown Manhattan, New York its cheerful terra cotta has long been debauched by a rebarbative gray cladding, and when the subway station there opened on October 27, 1904, the publisher, Adolph S. Ochs, exercised enough clout to get the stop named after his paper. A wonderfully beguiling and spirited birthday salute, Times Square Style as Graphics From the Great White Way, by Vicki Gold Levi and Steven Heller, teems with the sorts of images Times Square and its enterprises have used to sell themselves like matchbooks, postcards, menus, chinaware, posters and song sheets, all of them together conjuring a place.

Reports the acquisition of an archive of the late novelist Jack Kerouac by the New York Public Library. Inclusion of handwritten cards for playing a fantasy game of Kerouac's invention; Exhibition of Kerouac's papers and artifacts in the 'Victorians, Moderns, and Beats: New in the Berg Collection, 1994-2001' exhibition.